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... guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear ... -- Joe Satriani
I'm surrounded by great guitar players. -- Rick Springfield
Guitar players never listen to lead singers. -- Steven Tyler
But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen. -- Krist Novoselic
The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book. -- Dick Dale
Nick Zinner has been one of my favorite guitar players for a long time. -- Johnny Marr
Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties. -- Kirk Hammett
I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players. -- Juliana Hatfield
The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones. -- Gary Cherone
It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players. -- Ace Frehley
In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players. -- Ritchie Blackmore
The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players. -- Ian Anderson
To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period. -- Scott Ian
My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat. -- Bruno Mars
I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes. -- Ritchie Blackmore
I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me. -- Richard Thompson
I started doing up-and-down strumming, basically to keep time and to play fast. As time went on, I started realizing other guitar players couldn't do it. I always went against the grain. -- Johnny Ramone
When I joined the band, being that I was going to take this up as a profession, I realized that there were no two finer guitar players in the world that I'd rather play with. -- Michael Davis
I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight. -- Steven Tyler
I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for five years. So my style was already formed, and that's why I think it's so unique. -- Pete Townshend
Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers. -- Greg Iles
I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument. -- Bill Frisell
I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy. I used to sit by the record player and copy Chuck Berry and the Beatles. You can never copy someone completely, so you end up developing your own style. -- Ronnie Wood
I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up. -- George Benson
I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all. -- B. B. King
Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I like in guitar players. -- Bill Kreutzmann
When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that's not something I could do. -- David Byrne
Invariably, guitar players that go solo make really bad records. -- Richard Hawley
I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players. -- Robin Trower
Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have. -- Joe Perry
The Hamsters really kick ass - Slim is one of your greatest guitar players -- Walter Trout
My favorite guitar players are Chuck Berry and Brian May and Dave Davies from the Kinks. -- Brittany Howard
David Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard -- Dave Mustaine
Oddly enough, Hendrix is not my favorite guitar player. There are very few guitar players I get feeling from. -- Robin Trower
Oh, man, I love the Staple Singers. I love Pop Staples' guitar playing, too. He's one of my favorite guitar players. -- Brittany Howard
When Lonnie Mack came out with the guitar instrumental "Memphis" I thought, Oh God, finally somebody we guitar players can relate to ! -- Richard Betts
I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. -- Hal Sparks
Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd. -- Dean Wareham
I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring. -- Annie E. Clark
Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass. -- Donald Dunn
.. the Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players -- Jimi Hendrix
I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in a pop rock record again. -- Gary Cherone
The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work. -- Keith Richards
Guitar players get inward and analytical about their playing but when you start to get positive feedback from other players it makes you think that it is coming together. -- John Petrucci
I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice. -- Boz Scaggs
Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female. -- Mick Taylor
...A lot of guitar players get stuck on a person ... before they find out who they really are ... every guitar player should remember be yourself - just let it rip ... -- Henry Garza
I've studied several guitar players and songwriters, mostly from Al di Meola to Dimebag Darrell, from Freddie Mercury of Queen to Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Bradley Nowell of Sublime. -- Mark Salling
I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race. -- Kirk Hammett
It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it. -- Sammy Hagar

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